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Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Some things have been hidden too long

2019•2h 9m•6.8/10
DocumentaryHistory

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6.8/10(47)

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.

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Production

Piraya Film, Laika Film & Television, Associate Directors, BBC Storyville, DR, GEO Television, SVT, The Bertha Foundation, Wingman Media, RTBF, Film i Väst, VRT, VPRO, Against Gravity, NRK, YLE, RÚV, Channel 8 Hot, Doc Society

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Mads Brügger

Mads Brügger

Self - Investigator

Clarinah Mfengu

Self - Secretary

Saphir Wenzi Mabanza

Self - Secretary

Göran Björkdahl

Self - Investigator

Hilding Björkdahl

Self - Göran's Father

Margareth Ngulube

Self

Custon Chipoya

Self

Abraham Kunda

Self

Jacob Phiri

Self

John Ngongo

Self

Salomon Mwanza

Self

Safeli Mulenga

Self

Teresa Kankasa

Self

Neddy Banda

Self

Walter Mutukwa

Self

Charles Southall

Self - Former NSA Agent

Norman Kenward

Self - Photographer

Jan Beuckels

Self - R. Beuckels' Nephew

Fons Feayerts

Self

Lydia Sterkendries

Self - R. Beuckels' Friend

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